Three Bangladeshis were shot and wounded by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Kushkhali union at Satkhira Sadar Upazila on Sunday. One of the injured was identified as Ziaur Raman, son of Atier Rahman of Chhoygharia village of Sadar Upazila....
Kenya has become the latest country to ban travellers from parts of Ebola-hit West Africa as Nigeria scrambled to stop the deadly disease spreading through the continent's most populous nation. Kenyan Health Minister James Macharia said that the country is...
Unknown miscreants chopped to death youth at some time between Saturday night and early Sunday and dumped his body in a roadside ditch at Kashipur under Fatullah Police Station in Narayanganj Sadar Upazila. Local people found the body, aged about...
A fire broke out in a five-storied commercial building in the city’s Boro Moghbazar area on Sunday. Fire service sources said the fire broke out at the 4th floor of ‘SK Tower’ around 12:52pm and spread soon. On information, nine...
A crowd of some 200 demonstrators defied a curfew that came into effect in Ferguson, Missouri early Sunday, days after police shot dead an unarmed black teen, triggering a wave of rioting. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of...
President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for London on Sunday on a 7-day visit for his eye treatment. A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President took off from Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at 2.00pm. Industries Minister Amir...
A giant 63-metre blue whale shark statue towers over the world's largest aquarium, on a Chinese island being promoted as a testing ground for reforms aimed at encouraging domestic consumption as the driver of economic growth. Hengqin Island is just...
A firefight between Yemeni troops and al-Qaida fighters killed one soldier and four suspected militants, the Defense Ministry said in a statement Sunday. The ministry said the military targeted a house where it believed militants stayed in the southeastern province...
Tens of thousands of people, many wearing red as a sign of their patriotism to China, took part in a demonstration march in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest a planned civil disobedience campaign by pro-democracy activists in the city....
Two United Nations peacekeepers, from Burkina Faso, were killed in a suicide car bombing in northern Mali on Saturday, the UN and Mali security sources said. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was ‘deeply saddened’ by the deaths and the wounding of...
Philippine President Benigno Aquino will on Monday receive a completed draft bill to create a Muslim autonomous area, aimed at ending decades of fighting that has claimed thousands of lives, his spokesman said. Receiving the draft bill would allow Aquino...
At least two UN peacekeepers were killed and 10 others, including two Bangladesh soldiers, injured in separate incidents of attack on UN multidimensional stabilisation mission in Mali in the last one week. Media reports said two soldiers were killed and...
South Africa's decision to rescue a small lender seen as neither ‘too big’ nor ‘too interconnected’ to fail shows that taxpayers worldwide may have to accept that bank bailouts are here to stay. When South Africa's central bank recently announced...
A human hauler driver was stabbed to death by some unidentified miscreants at Mirpur-12 in the city on Sunday. The dead is Hasan, 20, son of Abdul Mannan. ‘Miscreants stabbed and critically injured the driver around 4:00am. Being informed, police...
Germany must increase workers' salaries to help its neighbours out of the economic slump, the European Union's employment commissioner Laszlo Andor said. The Hungarian said Berlin's big foreign trade surplus was hurting its European partners, and urged it to stimulate...
Debt, North Sea oil and the pound sterling are just some of the economic issues pitting Edinburgh against London ahead of Scotland's independence referendum in one month's time. First Minister Alex Salmond, the nationalist leader, insists Scotland must receive a...
With steel machines hissing and whirring and staff studiously manning production lines, Sunder Rajan's factory about two hours southwest of New Delhi is prospering. But Rajan's plant, one of seven spread across four states that churns out car steering systems,...
Britain's economy is ‘more than halfway’ down the path to full recovery, but any interest rate rises will be ‘limited’ and ‘gradual’, Bank of England (BoE) boss Mark Carney said Sunday. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Carney declared...
A knife-wielding man in a northeastern Chinese city near the North Korean border went on a slashing spree Sunday, killing two people and injuring 14 others, a state broadcaster said. The attack at a shopping mall in the city of...
When you next shop around for a new car, the chances are you will not buy a Karenjy. For a start, only a dozen are built each year, by hand, on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar and none are...
At least 31 Islamic State militants were killed in Syrian air force raids Sunday in the northern province of Raqa, a stronghold of the jihadist fighters, a monitoring group said. ‘The regime carried out 13 raids on the city of...
Ten foreign tourists and five Indonesians were missing on Sunday after a boat sank between islands in the east of the country, while 10 others had been rescued, search and rescue officials said. The vessel hit a reef and went...
A 35-year-old Australian man plunged to his death in southeastern France Sunday while attempting to parachute off a cliff in the extreme sport known as base-jumping. Police said the man had thrown himself off the 2,600-metre (8,500-feet) peak of Brevent...
The head of the UN atomic watchdog held talks in Iran on Sunday ahead of an August 25 deadline for Tehran to answer decade-old allegations of past nuclear weapons research. Yukiya Amano held morning talks with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad...
The sale of polluted water in containers in different parts of the country has turned into a booming business for lack of monitoring and control by the authorities concerned posing a serious health hazard to consumers, reports UNB. "So-called mineral...
TOKYO, Aug 15 (AFP) : Japan hasn't emerged from years of deflation quite yet, the country's economy minister said Friday, after a sales tax hike sparked a sharp decline in second-quarter growth. The comments from Akira Amari came two days...
SYLHET, Aug 15 (UNB): Muggers stabbed an executive of mobile phone operator of Banglalink and took away Tk 0.4 million from him at Laskal Bridge in Companiganj upazila on Thursday. The victim was identified as Ataur Rahman, a sales executive...
MELBOURNE, Aug 15 (Reuters) : BHP Billiton declared its preference for a demerger of its unwanted aluminum, manganese and nickel assets on Friday, setting the stage for the formation of a separate company that one report said could be worth...
BRATISLAVA, Aug 15 (Xinhua) : Slovakia's GDP grew by 2.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2014 compared to the same period of last year, the Slovak Statistics Office announced in a preliminary estimate yesterday. According to Slovak analysts,...
SEOUL, Aug 15 (AFP) : Samsung said Friday it had reached a deal to buy a US home automation startup SmartThings, as the South Korean electronics giant aims to expand beyond the increasingly saturated smartphone market. The world's top smartphone...
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